ware
IPA: wˈɛr
noun
- (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
- (in the plural) See wares.
- (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
- (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
- (Ireland) Crockery.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack.
- A placename:
- A place in the United Kingdom:
- A hamlet in East Devon district, Devon, England, next to Lyme Regis in Dorset (OS grid ref SY3291)
- A town and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3614).
- A hamlet in Ash parish, Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2860).
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Union County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Sherman Township, Pocahontas County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri.
- (countable) A surname.
- Ellipsis of Ware County. [One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Waycross.]
verb
- (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
- (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
- (nautical) To wear, or veer.
- Old eye dialect spelling of were.
adjective
- (poetic) Aware.
- (obsolete) Wary; cautious.
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